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Effects of Temperature and Preflooding on Rice Yields in Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

L. H. Young
L. H. Young
Affiliation:
National Irrigation Board, PO Box 30372, Nairobi, Kenya
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Summary

An investigation was made at the Mwea Irrigation Settlement, Kenya, to discover the reason why rice units which were transplanted earlier gave higher yields. Yields over an 11-year period were examined in relation to meteorological data and cultivation activities. It was found that the period during which the units were flooded prior to transplanting correlated with the date of transplanting, with longer preflooding periods causing higher yields and not the transplanting date. A yield/temperature relationship was also established.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , October 1980 , pp. 425 - 429
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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